Ok, heres the situation: for the past several months my computer has been on the fritz. I format it, install windows xp, and everything is fine and beautiful. so I just installed XP and am in it. I reboot once (becuase of installing drivers). Still everything is fine. I reboot again for whatever reason. Still, all is beautiful, everything is working great. I reboot again. It is dead.
I have been going through this cycle so many times now, and it never fails. I don't care too much since I have another computer I use more than that one. Always after that third reboot, as my computer is booting up (after it looks for a bootable cd) and just before windows normally loads, my computer reboots itself. Now like I said, I have another computer so I never looked too deep into it, but I've had it, I want it fixed so I can use both.
I just tried a whole bunch of things (aside from formatting which always works for those couple of boots) including the recovery console from the windows cd. I noticed something unusual at this point. I couldn't do anything with the harddrive through the recovery console. I received the following error message when trying to get a directory list of the only partition of my harddrive "An error occured during directory enumeration". So I'm starting to believe its my one year old 40gb harddrive thats actually the cause of this.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated to fix this problem short of buying a new harddrive, which I really can't afford right now. In case it may help, the harddrive has always been formatted as NTFS.
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